President and Melania Trump denounce Kathy Griffin beheading photo, question the mental health of its creators

President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump took stabs at the comic Wednesday for posing with a fake, bloody rendering of the President's severed head in a photo that ended up getting her fired from CNN.

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"Kathy Griffin should be ashamed of herself. My children, especially my 11 year old son, Barron, are having a hard time with this. Sick!" President Trump wrote on Twitter.

The photo of Kathy Griffin holding a rendering of President Trump's severed head. (Courtesy of Tyler Shields)

Melania issued a statement calling the photo "very disturbing" and questioning the mental fitness of those who made it.

"When you consider some of the atrocities happening in the world today, a photo opportunity like this is simply wrong and makes you wonder about the mental health of the person who did it," the statement said.

The Secret Service hinted on Twitter that it saw the photo as a threat of the "highest priority," and TMZ reported Wednesday the agency opened an investigation into "the circumstances surrounding the photo shoot." Agents are expected to talk to Griffin and the photographer, Tyler Shields.